From: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> The only remaining caller (path_pts()) should be using follow_down() anyway. And clean path_pts() a bit. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/namei.c | 22 ++-------------------- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c index a9622e629e76..fc946d6f02d6 100644 --- a/fs/namei.c +++ b/fs/namei.c @@ -1414,22 +1414,6 @@ static bool choose_mountpoint(struct mount *m, const struct path *root, } /* - * Skip to top of mountpoint pile in refwalk mode for follow_dotdot() - */ -static void follow_mount(struct path *path) -{ - while (d_mountpoint(path->dentry)) { - struct vfsmount *mounted = lookup_mnt(path); - if (!mounted) - break; - dput(path->dentry); - mntput(path->mnt); - path->mnt = mounted; - path->dentry = dget(mounted->mnt_root); - } -} - -/* * This looks up the name in dcache and possibly revalidates the found dentry. * NULL is returned if the dentry does not exist in the cache. */ @@ -2639,7 +2623,7 @@ int path_pts(struct path *path) */ struct dentry *parent = dget_parent(path->dentry); struct dentry *child; - struct qstr this; + struct qstr this = QSTR_INIT("pts", 3); if (unlikely(!path_connected(path->mnt, parent))) { dput(parent); @@ -2647,15 +2631,13 @@ int path_pts(struct path *path) } dput(path->dentry); path->dentry = parent; - this.name = "pts"; - this.len = 3; child = d_hash_and_lookup(parent, &this); if (!child) return -ENOENT; path->dentry = child; dput(parent); - follow_mount(path); + follow_down(path); return 0; } #endif -- 2.11.0